Treatment of breast cancer with epigenetic specific tools The partners of the TREATBEST consortium are joining forces in order to leverage disruptive science in the field of personalized breast cancer treatment. The final product will be a CE-marked IVD test predicting the treatment benefit for patients with triple-negative breast cancer,...
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Identification of drug candidates and biomarkers for immunotherapy (cancer and autoimmune diseases) IT-Targets project aims to identify innovative drugs candidates and biomarkers for cancer immunotherapy and auto-immune diseases in order to improve the response of patients to immunotherapy. The strategy is based on sampling human clinical samples, purify the different...
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Optimization of the treatment with HepaMune in fibro-inflammatory chronic liver diseases The aim of the IMPROVE project is to develop a new cell therapy product that will be used for the treatment of fibro-inflammatory chronic liver diseases. The objective is to develop a product exhibiting increased immuno-modulatory and anti-inflammatory potential,...
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Application of « Big data » digital technologies in the healthcare sector BIDMED wishes to explore the applicability and use of « Big Data » digital technologies in the healthcare sector, with a specific objective of enhancing the accessibility to proton therapy, the advanced radiotherapy modality for which the Walloon...
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Development and validation of a local treatment for cervix cancer resulting from human papillomavirus infection The main objective of the project is the development of an effective and safe local treatment, of the lesions of the cervix induced by HPV infection. This project results from the identification of a medical...
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Development of inhaled synergetic combinations for the treatment of resistant respiratory infections The aim of BioFiNa is to develop inhaled synergetic combinations for the treatment of resistant respiratory infections. The development of germs which are increasingly resistant to antibiotics is a major public health problem. The arsenal of available antibacterials...
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Development and validation of new molecules to restore the immune response against cancer cells Immunotherapy, based on therapeutic vaccination against antigens expressed by cancer cells, is at the present time a very promising approach. Its application is limited, however, due to mechanisms of immune suppression that are critical to control...
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Discovery of new targets for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease The HOPE 4 PD project aims to validate two G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), whose expression is altered in the striatum of patients with Parkinson's disease, as targets of drugs to treat neuro-degenerative diseases, Parkinson's disease being the first indication....
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New tools to diagnose cancer and optimize cancer treatments The goal of this project is to develop in vitro tests (I) to diagnose cancer and (II) personalize treatment, based on the detection of gene methylation. This project will mainly make it possible to determine some of these markers of methylation...
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Identification of new types of biomarkers and tracers for the in vivo molecular imaging of the pancreatic Beta-cell mass The goal of KeyMarker is to identify new types of biomarkers that can be used as radiotracers for PET or SPECT imaging and potential quantification of the pancreatic Beta-cell mass. Such...
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